Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-04
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Dependent Pension vese-Coass
DefeBses -Generai sheFsdan's
Vtews-s4tdaIe aged Gov.
eFBmenS Empleyes-A

lCofresp onder ee Posi- INTELLIGENCE. !
WASHINGTON. Feb. 81, 1887.
Though sueh report vas expected.
there was considerable excitement in
the House Saturday morning when the
Invalid Pensions Committee submitted
their unanimous report in favor Of pass
ing the Dependent Pension bill over the
Presidents veto. An eFors vas made
TO keep the report out Of the Record.
and to postpone il, bat the reading was
demanded aud seconded. Toe Com
mittee say that the number Of bsnt-
icisTies will not exceed 27,0C0 nor cosi
more than $4000.o00 pr year. The.
defend their ovn action with vi2nr and
sriticise the Presid snt's veto quite sharp
". The reference 10 the Mex can Pen
zion bill was Applaudsd by the Reoub
icaus. II is understood that the Pres
dent has conferred With Speaker Car
lslA and other pr miuebt Democrats
snnaerniug the probable action of tn
House on his veto, and that the Speak
n has given il as his opinisn that tbe
veto vii be sustained BY majority OF
FROM 20 TO 81. The Committee are dis
posed 60 press the matter vigorously foI
their own vindiostian. A majority Ct
be Republicans will doubtless be with
he Con- mittee and there will be a pretty
sharp fsht. The general impression il.
aoxeveE, that IL will be impossible 70
override the veto.
There Is possibility that the cues
lion of HppfopFiatinR several miilios
dollars for natl nal dsfenses may q I
before thu House 10 a favorable shapt
ihfoueh the Military AffAirs Committee
10 this way the House msy get q chano
20 spesk its Mid, regardless OF Mr..
kandaii's Committee. The chances are
bat tie numerous Senate bills sent e.
ths Appropriations Commit o will &c,
% chokea up that they will never get
ut. or, II they DO get Ont AZ all. will bt
squeez d aevn far below their natural
SIZE. The Military Affairs Committee,
however, seems disp sed 10 do some
thing. Tue reference OF the McAdoo
bill tn them gives ground plan 20
work on, and they will probably builG
np quite respect bile measure. They
heid msesing Saturday morning, at
which the expression of pinion VIA
iseidediy Ia favor of eefeuses. MI.
Bragg, the chairman, end one or tws
others are opposed 20 all action, bat 1t is
ev dent that the majority of the Com
mittee think otherwise.
by iavitati Gen. sheridan was be-
for , the II use Military Affairs Com
mittee Saturday and gave his views a,
TO the necessity OF national defenses
He said shat the FIRST thing required
vas guns, of which the country vas AT
present entirely destitute. N 1t to
guns the greatest necessity vas cruisers,
aud after them torpsdoes. The OsdI
nanee Department, the General said.
was behind the times, Is scAily in re
gard 20 small arms. There vas not
m gazine gun ia the possession of ths
g .vernmeut, while ali other nations
sers adopting them. The absence OF
aroi or appropriations bad, Of course, a
gresl deal 60 do With thus.
An observing visitor going through
the Executive Department. cannot fail
10 notice Che large Broporti Of tie
emf loyes who ars above middle age, a
much larger propoF ton than wiIl be
found Ia private business. This IL ae
Q unted for BY the fact that during be
Years Of war the business Of the covers
msnl grew 90 enormous proportions ,anc
correspondent CIV. The average age Of
persons appointed Between 1861 and
1868 would be abou; twenty ave year.
making their pr seut average aas about
afty years. The infssinn OF yoaDR
blood nv means Of new appointments
since 1873 has not ben snffi 'ient &C.
charge this average to any great ex-
tent In one ofiice in the treasury
ID partmeut (which may be taken a.
fair sample OF the d, pArtmentai - viee).
EheFe there are thirty employees, the
average age i = fractian over forty
three years. The changes ia tue class
aed service fFem natural csusss will be- /
mnoh more rapid Ia the tutare than
iuriug the last ten OF fifteen years
This dedaciion wili be encouraging Z
he hest Of anxioss WATERS on the eli
ctssle list.
An assistant chief OF one the Treaau-
~ Department divisions recently hRd
frtehd from bis old home visiting bic
For a few DAYS. TIE visitor daring hi
bort ssav lssTnsd % ths namber Of !
sourg iadirs wha are de- irr1s OF os |
IA ing governments psf Gus. AZ q |
Be upeu hts cfisial friend, b. repre-
-sutsd himself 30 be that gentleman,
md promised 10 give work TO eight OF
aine impoEs1nate spplicabts 10 they
Saald c Il Al his Cfilas. The DetaFt-
nsot fnsiAi has hardly been able l.
attend 10 any cftlciai sastuess since, 80 |
fFsqasu, esve oesn the calls upon him /
for ofiae. He experiences great din
salty IL making the girls seliese il w&s
Al iake. LEzox